The Bog People: Iron-Age Man Preserved

by P.V. Glob, Peter Vilhelm Glob, Elizabeth Wayland Barber (Introduction)

One spring morning two men cutting peat in a Danish bog uncovered a well-preserved body of a man with a noose around his neck. Thinking they had stumbled upon a murder victim, they reported their discovery to the police, who were baffled until they consulted the famous archaeologist P.V. Glob. Glob identified the body as that of a two-thousand-year-old man, ritually murdered and thrown in the bog as a sacrifice to the goddess of fertility.

 

Written in the guise of a scientific detective story, this classic of archaeological history--a best-seller when it was published in England but out of print for many years--is a thoroughly engrossing and still reliable account of the religion, culture, and daily life of the European Iron Age.

 

Includes 76 black-and-white photographs.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Archaeology, Anthropology, Science, Prehistory, Denmark

200 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1966

About the author

Peter Vilhelm Glob (født 20. februar 1911 i Kalundborg, død 20. juli 1985) var en dansk arkæolog, professor, dr.phil. samt direktør for Nationalmuseet og rigsantikvar 1960-1981. Søn af maleren Johannes Glob.

P. V. Glob var den første elev af den nyudnævnte professor i arkæologi ved Københavns Universitet Johannes Brøndsted. Globs disputats "Studier over den jyske enkeltgravskultur" udkom som et bind af Aarbøger for nordisk Oldkyndighed og Historie i 1944 og fik stor international betydning.

See also Peter Vilhelm Glob